Diamanti Rubini e Smeraldi by Silvia Malaguzzi

What did it mean to wear a pearl? Or having a diamond ring?

Through the analysis of almost one hundred selected masterpieces in the Uffizi Galleries' collection, we discover how jewellery plays an important role in iconography, or simply enriches the moral description of the character. Other times, on the other hand, the jewel, by showing an execution that can be traced back to a precise place and environment, allows us to understand the cultural inclinations of a character or to place them geographically. Author Silvia Malaguzzi guides the reader to discover the language of jewellery thanks to a very rich harvest of images and the beauty of the detailed reproductions of many of the most famous works in the history of art.

Diamanti Rubini e Smeraldi (“Diamonds Rubies and Emeralds”) is published in Italian by Nomos Edizioni.